On 1/25/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
There are well over 8 million external links in enwiki alone, including well over a half million distinct domains via HTTP.
A greenlist is not a remotely sane solution because of this...
Sane solutions are, however, possible.
I was thinking the simplest (from a user perspective) solution would be to designate any external link that had survived some given time frame (e.g., a week) as a non-spam link, and thus to switch off nofollow for it.
Obviously it wouldn't be perfect, but it might be close. Driveby spamming would have no effect, but useful links added by Wikipedians would, after a week, be considered real links.
I imagine this would be fairly difficult to implement though.
Steve